Squatter settlement is defined as a low residential area, which has developed without the legal right to the land or permission from the concerned authorities to build, and as a result, of their illegal status, infrastructure and services are usually inadequate (UN-Habitat 2003).
2. Katchi Abadis
• these are informal settlements created
through squatting or informal
subdivisions of state or private land.
• A squatter settlement in this manner,
can be characterized as a private zone
which has developed without legal
claims to the land and/or
authorization from the concerned
authorities to construct; as a result of
their unlawful or semi-legal status,
infrastructure and services are usually
insufficient.